Violent Extremist and Terrorist Threats: Examining Ghana's Preparedness - Mawusi Yaw Dumenu

The framework combines security and non-security approaches; and clearly defines the roles, funcons and specific responsibilies of several state instuons beyond the tradional security agencies, and includes state regulatory agencies, peacebuilding instuons, civil society NAFPCVET organizaons (CSOs) and religious bodies to fulfill the four main pillars of to fulfill the pillars of prevenng, pre-emp. [...] ASSESSING THE PREPAREDNESS OF SECURITY AGENCIES While these and many other iniaves not highlighted here have been set in moon to counter the threats of violent extremists and terrorists, it is crucial to examine the level of awareness and preparedness of security agents in border communies. [...] team parcipated in drills in terrorism In this regard, almost 8 in 10 (77%) of security agents surveyed indicated that awareness and members of their team parcipated in drills in terrorism awareness and preparedness in the preparedness in the past 12 months before the survey (Figure 2). [...] ADEQUATE RESOURCING OF o Inadequate personnel to control the crossing points: The number of THE SECURITY AGENTS WILL personnel deployed to the border communies are not enough to cover the EQUIP THEM TO HANDLE COMBAT SITUATIONS. [...] The views expressed are solely the responsibility of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Board of Directors or development partners of the Center © 2022 Ghana Center for Democrac Development (CDD-Ghana).